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LETTERS, Page 10WORLD WAR II
On Sept. 1, 1939, I was a military reservist in Warsaw, digging
antiaircraft ditches along the Vistula River. On Sunday Sept. 3 I
stood in front of the British embassy with a crowd of other Poles,
singing for joy at the announcement that Britain had just declared
war on Germany. On Sept. 6 I left Warsaw on foot. I marched east
along roads that were littered with bodies, dead horses and
bombed-out vehicles, until Sept. 17, when I was "liberated" by the
invading Red Army. Your description could not have been more
accurate (WORLD WAR II, Aug. 28). After 50 years, I found myself
reliving those events again.
Jack Zawid
Atlantic City
Having been born in Warsaw, I was particularly interested in
your mention of the Warsaw radio station's playing a Chopin
polonaise as a morale booster during the battle for the city. That
station's musical motif had been recorded by my father a few years
previously, when he was a member of the Warsaw Philharmonic. Our
family left Poland in 1936, when my father was engaged by the
Boston Symphony. We were among the lucky ones.
Walter Shields
Torrance, Calif.
It is important to note that the Germans approved of Hitler
and gave him great support. Without them the systematic elimination
of millions of Jews would not have been possible. It is sad that
we do not seem to have learned anything after this horrible war in
which 6 million Germans and Austrians died. How else to explain the
resurgence of extremists on the far right in our country?
Johannes Lohre
Darfeld, West Germany
To read about Nazi Germany is to revisit a demented period. As
terrible as the stories are, they are necessary to remind us of
the horrors. We must never forget, or we risk having the torch of
peace extinguished once more. It flickered and went out 50 years
ago. Never forget. Never again.
Edward B. Ryder IV
Centerport, N.Y.